How Does A Writer Know What They Are Good At? by Shannan E. Johnson
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2 min readMay 5, 2020
Film Courage: How does a writer know their strengths?
Writer/Instructor and Script Consultant Shannan E. Johnson (The Professional Pen): Good question. I think a lot of that is going to come from your own confidence, from within like this is a natural skill for me, this is a natural area for me. I do think it takes some time to get there which is why when writers work with me I will ask them those kind of questions:
“Are you writing what you like to write?”
“Are you writing what you like to watch?”
“Are you writing characters that you know very well?”
“Are you writing characters that you observe?”
Which is fine but make sure that if there are people that you just observe that you…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
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